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Interview with Mary Stopes-Roe

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Discusses her father’s designs work and remembers both skipping stones on a river during holidays with her father and catapulting marbles over a washtub in their garden. She goes on to discuss the Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation, the bouncing bomb and the Tall boy and Grand Slam bombs. She talks about the importance of Roy Chadwick and the Lancaster, and her father’s other designs that included the R100 airship, the geodetic structure of the Wellington, and designs for civil aircraft the Wild Goose and the Swallow.

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2015-06-01

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Julie Williams

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AP: This interview is being conducted for the International Bomber Command Centre. The interviewer is Andrew Panton. The interviewee is Mary Stopes Roe. The interview is taking place at Mrs Stopes Roe’s home in Birmingham on the 30th of May 2015. Mrs Stopes Roe is the daughter of Sir Barnes Wallis the English scientist, engineer and inventor.
MSR: All through the 30s we used to go on wonderful camping holidays down to Dorset. The Isle of Purbeck. And my father, they were lovely holidays, he was such fun on those holidays. And one of the games that we played there was skipping pebbles across the water, you know. As one does. Or some people do. Anyway, he used to skip pebbles across the water and he could get his to do eight or nine or something or other. I never could do it. It’s that flick of the, twist of the wrist which I never got and mine used to go plop and plop and down. But it was great fun, you know. That, I mean of course it isn’t exactly straightforwardly linked to the bouncing bomb but it was something that was in our background. And my father asked us four, well he told us four, to collect my mother’s old tin wash tub, to fill it with cold water which we brought out in cans and things from the kitchen and poured into the washtub. And it was placed on the garden table and then my father produced a catapult which he’d had made at the works and he borrowed my sisters’ marbles and he [laughs] he shot the marbles over the water in the water tub. And there were, there was a string spread across the water tub. And my brother who was the eldest and the most clever had to say whether the bobber went under or over the string and how many times it bounced going across the tub. And the rest of us stood and watched just thinking that daddy was playing a nice game. And then our job was to find the marbles when they’d dropped off the other side. The dear old family doctor who’d come up for reasons, I think my mother was worried about — I don’t know what she was worried about but anyway he was such a dear old friend he came a lot. And he stood in the background and there he is in the picture. My mother, who was very snap happy with her little Kodak thing, photographed everything that happened and she photographed that. And there we all are for time until eternity. Standing by the wash tub on the garden terrace. And my mother later reported that we children were all there of course and when, when the, when the raid was public knowledge my mother reported of course the children never said anything. Thinking that we were very virtuous. I mean she put about the idea that we were very virtuous and, you know, careful. Actually, of course, what really happened was we didn’t say anything was because we had no idea why he was playing this jolly game in the garden. And if you say to your friends when you’re sort of thirteen fourteen’ish, ‘Well my father bounced marbles on the water tub in the garden.’ I mean, you don’t do you because it sounds so stupid. So of course, we didn’t say anything. But the minute the raid was reported I realized what that was for. Roy Chadwick’s contribution, apart from designing the Lancaster, which is no mean feat anyway was absolutely critical to the whole raid. My father realized this and he wrote very warmly to Chadwick to thank him for the effort he made in altering the bomb bay of the Lancaster. Without which alteration the bomb couldn’t be carried and therefore no raid. That was never, I don’t think, I know he didn’t think that Chadwick had had enough honour and, and fame for, for what he did. And I certainly don’t think he did. I mean, when does he ever get mentioned? And yet without him there would not have been a raid, which my father knew and he, and he expressed his gratitude and admiration. The whole of that alteration was done on twenty Lancasters, I think in under three weeks or something. I mean, amazing. Well having altered the Lancaster, poor old Lancaster’s undercarriage to carry the upkeep. The bouncing bomb. Then of course my father designed the earthquake bombs — Tallboy and Grand Slam. A Tallboy is pretty big. A Grand Slam is even bigger and the Lancaster had to have her undercarriage altered again. Her bomb bays. In fact, in the Grand Slam, I think I’m right, that the bomb bay couldn’t actually be used. It had to be sort of tied up with rope. Not quite but when it came to Grand Slam, twenty two thousand pound of bomb underneath the Lancaster’s belly Roy Chadwick had to remove the bomb doors completely and attach the Grand Slam under her belly by means of chains. I mean, that was no mean alteration but it worked. And my father is remembered, mainly I suppose, for the bouncing bomb for the dams’ raid. For the engineer’s way of stopping the war which is wonderful. I don’t complain about that at all but he, it is not, he was not a man of war. He was a man of peace. He was brought up to believe very very firmly in the benefits of the society in which he lived. The culture in which he lived. The background against which he lived. And he thought it was his duty, indeed the duty of every man and woman to fight for, to protect this culture. That’s why he did it. Not because he was a man of war. He was not. Of course, you have big wars to fight and you fight them but in the mean, in between the wars he did develop the most beautiful airship, and successful, which I don’t, I don’t think people should forget. The R100. Not the R101. That’s a very interesting story that but not to be told here. But it was from the building of the R100 that he devised the geodetic structure for making curved and strong and lightweight bodies. Heavier than aircraft. That went straight into the Wellington, the Wellesley and would finally have been used in the Windsor which actually it was not used in the, in the war. I don’t think it every reached the bombing stage. So, it was really design that he was so interested in, I think. Apart from defending his family and country. Nation and belief. It was always the design. The best design that he was aiming at. After the war, in fact, before the war ended he’d moved on in his mind to civil aviation and the benefit for keeping together the Commonwealth as it, by then was. By the ability to fly all around the world without having to put down to take on whatever supplies were needed. Because the intervening lands might not be so welcoming. But this of course involved high speed which involves supersonic flight. Supersonic flight, to be achieved successfully as I have always understood it is it requires a different aeroplane. A different shape of the wings of the aeroplane. They should fold back so that it can dart through the, through the upper atmosphere without having these wings out at right angles. So, from that he started to design what was originally called the Wild Goose. In 1948 he started, well he was thinking of it before the war ended. And that is, he wrote some wonderful memoirs of that. That time. Writing actually in letters to my mother. He never wrote without having a purpose if you see what I mean. If somebody was going to read it. He never sent the letters but there they all are. First of all at Thurley old aerodrome in Bedfordshire and then down to Predannack in Cornwall. On the Lizard. And there Wild Goose turned into the Swallow which was a very beautiful aircraft with the swept back wings in high powered flight. But you have to have them in the normal position to take off in the ordinary atmosphere. So that’s the problem. He, the Swallow got to the point at which it could have had trial runs with a, with a test pilot. And his good old friend Mutt Summers and others would have been willing to try to fly the Swallow. But after the disaster, to my father’s mind, indeed quite true, of the deaths of so many brave young men in the dams’ raid he swore that never again would he put another man’s life in danger. He would not have a test pilot. So, and as everybody knows the government wouldn’t support the development any further and so as he sadly said, we sold it to America. What Boeing did with it I can’t remember. But anyway, my father sadly said as I also remember they spoiled it by putting a tail on it. There was a plan. He devised a design for a bridge to go, I think it was underwater. An underwater bridge over the Messina Straits between Italy and Sicily. I don’t quite know what happened to that design but I don’t think it ever got made. Which was a pity because it would have been, you know, rather interesting. He, he designed racing skiffs for boys clubs. That was his love. His love of the water and everything to do with the sea. So, when somebody asked him to do that he did it. He designed at Brooklands where he was working of course for, by this time it was BAC not Vickers Armstrong’s and the stratosphere chamber is absolutely huge. I have, in fact, I it was opened, it was redone by English heritage and opened again about a year ago. And it is there by the, by where he had his research and development department. And in it you could test anything that you wanted to have, wanted to be tested under extreme circumstances. For example, de-icing of trawlers and indeed de-icing of aeroplane structures too in very high altitudes. And there are wonderful photographs of trawlers with, in the stratosphere chamber, ice dripping off their rigging and all this and whatever. It’s amazing. That was his design and there it still is. So that, that was another thing that was quite important. While the Swallow was being developed and perfected in Predannack in Cornwall Leonard Cheshire joined Barnes Wallis again there. I think this is not very often remembered that that was a point at which the two worked together again and my father admired Cheshire very much indeed. I expect Cheshire admired him but that I don’t know because he was very interested in Cheshire’s work for the disabled, the sick and the needy and was a great supporter of the Cheshire homes. Always. And that’s not very often, I think, remembered. On that same line my father devised, he became the first president of the Bath Medical Engineering Institute and he, because he had designed lightweight calipers for children. You know, he had seen children hobbling about with great hefty things on, calipers on their legs and he designed lightweight calipers. And thus, he became the President of Bath Medical Engineering Institute which was a position which he held for quite some years. I’ve often wondered what it was that made him even think of, you know, sort of a bit far from bombs and flying at supersonic speeds. But looking back over his life his father, who was a doctor, got polio myelitis in 1893. And my father was then six and I mean, it was a pretty, it was a crisis for the family because of course at that stage there was no cure. He just was laid flat for six months. Money was scarce and so on. And in the end my grandfather had an enormous metal caliper down his leg. And I remember, as a child we used to wonder what on earth was under his trouser leg because it had this very sort of rigid angle at the knee and when he wanted to bend his leg he had to bend down and press the metal and it made a click and we were fascinated. But I suspect the trouble the family went through then stuck in Barnes’s mind for the rest of his life. One of the outcomes of the raid on the dams was that precision bombing became a possibility which it had not been before. You did not have to have carpet bombing once you had got a squadron with the skill and aptitude of 617. And they were amazing. You could actually precision bomb without damaging vast numbers of ordinary civilians. This was very important. My father had, had it in mind and the Tallboy and Grand Slam were on his drawing board but of course they couldn’t be used without the efficiency and skill and bravery of 617. So that the two were totally, totally linked. The development of the skill and competence of the squadron and the skill of the designer. One outcome of the dams’ raid, the success of the dams’ raid which is not often mentioned I think is the vital importance of precision bombing which 617 Squadron achieved. Previously, while of course there were many targets that would have benefited us greatly if we could have smashed couldn’t be broken by ordinary sized bombs and dropped from a great height. To do, to smash the really heavy armaments construction places in France and North Europe you needed things like the Tallboy and the Grand Slam. The earthquake bombs which my father had certainly begun to design. I don’t know how far he’d got by the time the dams’ raid was achieved but of course they, they were not any use without the capability for precision bombing which 617 had now achieved. Once the Air Ministry, War Ministry had realized this, that there was this ability to deliver a weapon. They did say to my father, you know, finish designing the earthquake which he then went and proceeded to do. And it was, I mean that the, the development of the precision bombing capability is not always, I think, given the merit that it should have been given. Those men were extremely skilled. Without their ability and of course the bomb. The tools to go to be used. The bombs. The earthquake bombs. The Tirpitz would not have been sunk. The first target to be hit by an earthquake bomb was the Saumur Tunnel. That was the Tallboy. Tallboy then went on to crack the V1 bomb launch sights. I remember those. They were famous. They came over. They made a droning noise. When you heard the droning noise you just were pretty near it, pretty careful to listen. If the droning noise stopped you were in trouble. Get under the kitchen table or something of the sort. But if the droning noise went on you were alright. It was somebody else. That was the V1s. All seen from a child’s point of view. And the other thing, the next, the next big, I think the most famous Tallboy success was where the V2 rocket was going to be. Rocket was going to be launched from. The V2 rocket was going to be launched from Northern France, a place called Wizernes, and it was from some sort of a launch. It was undercover. Under a great flat concrete surface of a depth which would be quite impossible for ordinary bombs to reach and which no amount of scatter bombing could possibly destroy. But we still have one of the 617 old boys. If I can call them that. John Bell. Who launched from, who launched a Tallboy. I don’t remember which plane. Which plane it was dropped from but —
AP: He dropped it from a Lancaster.
MSR: Oh, I know it was a Lancaster.
AP: Oh sorry.
MSR: I meant the, oh goodness me.
AP: I think it was KCA.
MSR: Was it? Oh, I’d better put that in it case it’s wrong.
AP: We’ll just say sorry about that. We’ll just keep talking. He was a bomb aimer.
MSR: Yeah.
AP: And he was the one who released that Tallboy.
MSR: Yes.
AP: On the dome.
MSR: Yes. The only way to destroy that dome was by an earthquake bomb. And John Bell, who is still with us who was the bomb aimer on the Lancaster that went over this Wizernes rocket pen and his bomb dropped on the, on this concrete dome. Lord knows how much concrete was piled in there but anyway the Tallboy destroyed it and the V2 rocket didn’t have a chance.
AP: So, they were never able to launch it.
MSR: No.
AP: Because it was in a chalk quarry, this is the interesting geology bit, it was in a chalk quarry and the dome was, there was a whole load of rockets underneath it. John’s bomb didn’t hit the dome. It just hit the outside of the dome and because it was chalk the earthquake shockwave crumbled the chalk.
MSR: Yeah. Yeah. This rocket, V2 rocket pen was actually constructed within a chalk quarry. A quarry for mining chalk and while my father had always said that if you could get a bomb into the, down into the earth deep enough it didn’t have to be actually on the spot because the earthquake effect would destroy the target that you were aiming at. I remember him saying that if it would, if water could increase the strength of an explosion at thirty feet then if you could only get a bomb down in the earth at sufficient depth the same sort of earthquake effect would, would work. And it did. And because it was in this chalk quarry the chalk all shook and crumbled and the whole thing collapsed. But it was the earthquake effect. Not having gone straight down through the concrete surface. But that was what my father had predicted would happen. He would get a bomb deep enough into the earth which the Tallboy did and the Grand Slam even more.

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Roy Chadwick with a model of Avro Tudor

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Roy Chadwick stranding wearing suit and holding a pencil. In the foreground the model of a four engine passenger aircraft. On the reverse 'Only copy, (this photograph has been taken from a film (home movie) clip, around 1946). Roy Chadwick in the design office with a model of the Tudor 1 (I think) talking to the design team. It is a very good likeness'.

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IBCC Digital Archive

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1946

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Steve Baldwin

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[underlined] ONLY COPY [/underlined]
(This Photograph has been taken from a film clip [inserted] (home movie) [/inserted] around [underlined] 1946 [/underlined] )
ROY CHADWICK IN THE DESIGN OFFICE with a model of the Tudor 1 (I think) talking with the design team.
It is a very good likeness.

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Mary and Roy Chadwick standing in front of car

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Mary Chadwick on the left wearing light coat, Roy Chadwick on the right wearing pullover, shirt and tie with foot on running board of car. In the background stone house with window. On the reverse 'Roy and Mary Chadwick, 1930's'.

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Roy Chadwick wearing jacket and tie putting something in his mouth. In the background bushes. On the reverse '1925, to mouths'.

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1925

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Steve Baldwin

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1947-09-05

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Steve Baldwin

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IL 464110 (Printed by authority of the Registrar-General.)
[underlined] D. Cert. [/underlined]
[inserted Crest]
CERTIFIED COPY of an ENTRY OF DEATH.
Pursuant to the Births and Deaths Registration Acts, 1836 to 1929.
The Statutory Fee for this Certificate is 2s. 6d. together with 1d. Stamp Duty. Where a search is necessary to find the entry, a Search Fee is payable in addition.
Insert in this Margin any Notes which appear in the original entry.
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Registration District Macclesfield.
1947. Death in the Sub-district of Macclesfield in the COUNTY OF CHESTER
No. 457
Columns: - 1
When and where Died.
Twenty third August 1947.
In field at Shird Fold Farm Adlington R.D.
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Name and Surname.
Roy Chadwick
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Sex.
Male
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Age.
54 years
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Rank or Profession.
of Kingsley Gilbert Road Hale Cheshire
Chief Technical Director at an Aircraft Factory
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Cause of Death.
Complete extrusion of Brain resulting from the Prototype Aircraft in which he was engaged crashing in a field at Shird Fold Farm Adlington whilst on a test flight on 23rd August 1947. P.M. Misadventure.
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Signature, Description, and Residence of Informant.
Certificate Received from J.A.K. Ferns Coroner for Cheshire (East district)
Inquest held 26th August 1947
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When Registered.
Twenty eighth August 1947
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Signature of Registrar.
S. Alwyn Bevan
Deputy Registrar.
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I, MAJOR A. BEVAN, Registrar of Births and Deaths for the Sub-District of Macclesfield, in the COUNTY OF CHESTER do hereby certify that this is a true copy of the Entry No. 457 in the Register Book of Deaths for the said Sub-District, and that such Register Book is now legally in my custody.
WITNESS MY HAND this day of 5 SEP 1947, 19 . S. Alwyn Bevan [postage stamp 5 SEP 1947] Registrar of Births and Deaths.
CAUTION. – Any person who (1) falsifies any of the particulars on this Certificate, or (2) uses it as true, knowing it to be falsified, is liable to Prosecution.

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Newspaper cutting Roy Chadwick

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Head and shoulders photograph of Roy Chadwick wearing jacket and tie. Printed details that he was chief designer at Avros for over 20 years and mentioning two aircraft, Avro 504 and Anson, which were built in greater numbers than any other type.

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Mr. Roy Chadwick has been chief designer of Avros for more than twenty years. In that time a great many designs were produced, two of which have been built in greater numbers than any other type: the 504 in the first world war and the Anson in the present. In addition to being chief designer he is now a director of the firm.
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1921-10-08

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1893-05-17

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Steve Baldwin

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BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION ACT, 1874.
CERTIFICATE of REGISTRY of BIRTH
I, the undersigned, Do hereby certify that the Birth of Roy Chadwick born on the 30th day of April 1893, has been duly registered by me at No. 429 of my Register Book.
Witness my hand, this 17th day of May 1893
Alfred Edwards {Registrar of Births and Deaths.
Farnworth Sub-District.
[OVER.

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1944-12-19

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1943-06-09

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Steve Baldwin

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Dear Roy
Edna and myself were very delighted to hear of your recognition in the recent “Honours List” published in the papers and heard on the wireless.
We wish you to accept our sincere congratulations and wish you further success in the future.
[underlined] George.F.Gomersall. [/underlined]

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From County high school for girls. Congratulates Roy Chadwick on being honoured by the King for his work as aircraft designer. Proud of having a 'father' who had done service to country.

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IBCC Digital Archive

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1943-06-02

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Steve Baldwin

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[indecipherable words]
THE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS,
ALTRINGHAM,
CHESHIRE.
June 2nd 1943.
Dear Mr. Chadwick,
I was delighted to hear in the News to-day that you have been honoured by the King for your services as an aeroplane designer. We clapped you at School Assembly to-day and feel very proud of having a “father” who has done such distinguished service to our Country.
I send you the congratulations of the School and would send you a telegram of congratulations, but I believe that is not a truly patriotic thing to do!
With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
D.M. Douglas.

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1943-10-06

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Roy Chadwick and five people in front of aircraft

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Three men wearing jacket and tie and three women wearing overcoats and hats, standing in front of a biplane. In the background hangars and other people. On the reverse 'Lympne 1925, Roy, Col: The Master of Sempill, Mrs Semphill, Mary, Mrs Hinkler, Mr [..]'.

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1925

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Roy Chadwick in front of aircraft landing gear

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Roy Chadwick in suit standing by landing gear of an Avro Aldershot

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Three men, Roy Chadwick on the left in dark overcoat and hat, middle in flying gear, the right in suit standing in front of an Avro Tutor registration K.123[.].

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Order of service for funeral of Roy Chadwick, Sydney Thorn and David Wilson on 27 August 1947.

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IBCC Digital Archive

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1947-08-27

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Steve Baldwin

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Nunc Dimittis
(To be sung as the coffins are borne from Church)

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace: according to the word.
For mine eyes have seen: thy salvation,
Which thou hast prepared: before the face of all people:
To be a light to lighten the Gentiles: and to be the golry of thy people Israel.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost:
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end.
Amen.

Committal Sentence
The coffins are lowered into the graves

The Committal

The Blessing

[cross symbol]

Requiescant in pace

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[cross symbol]

Funeral Service
at
Christ Church, Woodford
Wednesday, 27th August 1947

Psalm 23
The Lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing.
He shall feed me in a green pasture: and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort.
He shall convert my soul: and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness, for his Name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff comfort me.
Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me: thou hast anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be full.
But thy loving-kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost:
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.

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Hymn
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide:
The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide:
When other helpers fail, and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day:
Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away:
Change and decay in all around I see:
O Thou, Who changest not, abide with me.

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I need Thy Presence every passing hour:
What but Thy grace can foil the tempter’s power?
Who like Thyself my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord abide with me.

I fear no foe with Thee at hand to bless:
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness:
Where is death’s sting? Where, Grave, the victory?
I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.

Hold Thou Thy Cross before my closing eyes:
Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies:
Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee:
In life, in death. O Lord abide with me. Amen.

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Letter to Roy Chadwick from Barnes Wallis

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Addressed to Roy Chadwick at A.V.Roe on Vickers-Armstrong headed paper. Thanks Chadwick for existence of Lancaster and his support at a meeting in C.R.D's office on 26 January without which the dams raid would not have happened. States is was one of the most amazing examples of team work and cooperation in the war.

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IBCC Digital Archive

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1943-05-25

1943-05-27

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Steve Baldwin

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Roy Chadwick, Esq.,
A.V.Roe & Co. Ltd.,
Greengate,
Middleton,
[underlined] MANCHASTER [/underlined]
My dear Chadwick,
I am sorry that my erratic movements since the great event have prevented my receiving your telegram of congratulations until today. I am very deeply grateful, but feel an enormous share of the credit is due to you, and I have been trying to find the time to white and tell you how much I appreciate all the work which you and your assistants have done, and personally, in a special degree, was given the making or breaking of this enterprise, for if at that fateful meeting in C.R.D’s office on the 26th February, you had declared the task impossible of fulfilment in the given time, the powers of opposition were so great that I should never have got instructions to go ahead. Possibly you did not realise how much hung on your instantaneous reaction, but I can assure you that I very nearly had heart failure until you decided to join in the great adventure. No-one believed that we should do it. You yourself said it would be a miracle if we did, and I think the whole thing is one of the most amazing examples of team work and co-operation in the whole history of the war.
May I offer you my very deep thanks for the existence of your wonderful Lancaster, for it was the only aircraft in the world capable of doing the job, and I should like to pay my tribute of congratulation and admiration to you, the designer.
Let us hope that the future will hold for us another terrific adventure in which we may join, though I fear no such spectacular target
P.T.O.

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remains to be brought down.
All good wishes for the future success of Lancaster [inserted]s[/inserted] and Yorks.
Yours very sincerely,
[underlined] B.N.Wallis. [/underlined]

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Letter to Roy Chadwick from Ministry of Supply

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From press officer. Writes that a copy of approved radio script being sent. Continues that copy has been sent to other official to see if there are any points to which exception is taken. Concludes with thanks for help in rubber salvage campaign.

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IBCC Digital Archive

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1943-06-03

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Robin Christian

David Bloomfield

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Postcard from Roy Chadwick to Rosemary Chadwick

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Writes he thinks she will have done well in exams and says don'y worry about essay. Encourages her not to worry about exams next week. On the front artwork of a boy and a girl in a red car. Titled 'Expect us when you see us'.

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IBCC Digital Archive

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1947-07-04

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Steve Baldwin

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[underlined] P.S [/underlined] Re:- the Picture, it will not be long before we see you.

My dear Rosemary. [underlined] Sat. 4th July 47 [/underlined]
We were pleased to receive yours of [indecipherable word] I think you will have done O.K. in the Exams. dont [sic] worry about the Essay. I suppose that you have more exams next week but do not worry about them just take it as easily as you can. We are all well & hope that you are my dear. With love & best wishes from Mummy & I your Daddy.
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[inserted] Biggy & Osie in their Balloon. [/inserted]
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“Expect us when you see us”

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IBCC Digital Archive

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1946-10

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Tricia Marshall

David Bloomfield

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“Kingsley”
Gilbert Rd Hale
Sunday Oct 46.
My dear Rosemary
Just a few lines my dear to let you know that we are thinking of you & hoping that you are quite well & happy.
Mummy is sending you some stockings & you must wear them at once as the weather has turned so cold.
I do hope that you have not got a chill thro’ not having stockings & I’m afraid that it is my fault that you have none with you as I wrote about this before but did not
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send you the stockings at the time.
There is’nt [sic] much to report from home this time, Mummy & I have seen two films during the week “Mildred Pierce” & “Do you love me” I did’nt [sic] like the first but the second was’nt [sic] bad in Technicolour, you know, all crooning & trumpet blowing etc:
Grandma a [sic] knitted you a very nice jumper, I’m sure you will like it very much.
We are all well & send our dear love to you
Daddy.
P.S John & Margaret came round in their new car today, its [sic] a little beauty. 8.HP. Austin Saloon.
Daddy

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Postcard from Roy Chadwick to Rosemary Chadwick

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Asks after Rosemary and hopes she is having happy enjoyable time. Looking forward to having her home again. On the front artwork of a boy giving a diamond ring to a girl and a dog. Title 'Ain't life grand?'.

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Steve Baldwin

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Kingsley Monday 11th Aug 1947
My dear Rosemary. I enclose a letter & P.C. for you my dear. How are things going with you? I hope that you are having a happy and enjoyable time my dear & that the weather is really nice down south and that you are benefitting by it. We are all well but it is very quiet & we shall be glad to have you home again with us. Take great care of yourself darling. With much love from Mummy & I. your Daddy.
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“Ain’t Life Grand?”

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IBCC Digital Archive

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1947-06-08

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Tricia Marshall

David Bloomfield

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[postmark]
[postage stamp]
Miss Rosemary Chadwick
St Elphin’s School.
Darley Dale.
Matlock.
[underlined] Derbyshire. [/underlined]
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Sunday. 8th June. 47.
“Kingsley”,
Gilbert Rd
[underlined] Hale. Cheshire. [/underlined]
My [underlined] dear Rosemary [/underlined]
Many thanks my dear for your letter and Mummy & I are looking forward to seeing you at the week end.
Let us know what time your train arrives in Manchester so that Mummy can meet you & we will go to a Flick if I can get away early from the works.
I’m glad to hear that the school work is going along well & that you are doing your studies.
It will well repay you in the future I’m sure.
It is good news to hear
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[underlined] 2 [/underlined]
that the measels [sic] epidemic is subsiding & I hope that all the suffers [sic] will soon be well again.
I enclose the snaps which have come out very well.
Mummy is very pleased with the ones of you & I think that Muymmy & you look very nice indeed.
The replacement Pullet has’nt [sic] arrived yet but the others are doing very well.
I have no special news for you my dear this time but we are all quite well & hope that you are the same.
With much love from Mummy & I.
Yours ever
Daddy.

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Letter from Roy Chadwick to Rosemary Chadwick

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Glad that oral exams went alright and offering advice on taking examinations. Asks if extra tuition and talks on other school activities. Catches up on family news and events, jam and sweets being sent tomorrow. Planning to drive over on Sunday and goes on with family and chicken laying news.

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IBCC Digital Archive

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1947-05-18

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Tricia Marshall

David Bloomfield

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Sunday 18th May 47
“Kingsley”
Gilbert Rd
Hale Cheshire
My [underlined] dear Rosemary [/underlined]
We were very glad to get your letter written on Wednesday and to know that your Orals went off satisfactorily my dear.
I’m sorry that you were nervous before they started but I suppose that everyone is more or less anxious before an examination.
Try and be confident because I’m sure that you will not find the examinations difficult and you are certain to pass them so why be worried my dear girl, if you can gain confidence you will do better & find them easier
Are you getting any extra tuition in Chemistry & Latin also I’d like to know whether the tuition you had during the holidays
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[underlined] 2 [/underlined]
has had a helpful effect or not.
I’m so glad to know that you enjoyed the Ascension day outing and that the weather so nice I had got a bit mixed up & thought that it was to be during the previous week so I expect that my letter of last Sunday was rather inexplicable to you.
I hope that the snapshot you, Di & Maughty turns out well as I should like to have one.
Mummy has got a role of Film for you, have you used up the one you took to school.
Mummy is sending you some jam & some sweets tomorrow.
By the way did you receive the £1 note she sent to you during last week?
We will drive over next Sunday & I trust that the weather
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[underlined] 3 [/underlined]
will be good so that we can have a nice time together & we shall be pleased to have Di & Maughty with us as you suggest.
We will bring the things you ask for in your letter my dear.
Margaret & John have been to see us this evening and they are both quite well.
Their house is getting along well now & the [sic] should be in it next month, I hope that they will be comfortable and happy there.
The Pullets are O.K. except No. 1. which still does not lay, the other three are laying quite well.
I moved them out of the garage into the garden now that the weather is better & I hope that they will flourish there although
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[underlined 4 [/underlined]
does’nt [sic] seem to like the idea of them being outside.
However we shall just have to wait & see how they get along, personally I think that they will like it.
We are all quite well at home I’m pleased to say and I hope that you are in the best of health dear.
Mummy & I send our best love to you in which we are joined by Grandma and Emily.
Well bye-bye for the present & looking forward to next Sunday I remain ever your loving
Daddy.

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1947-04-15

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Steve Baldwin

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MONDAY 14.5.47
“KINGSLEY”
[postmark][postage stamp]
My dear Rosemary.many thanks for your letter my dear & we are glad to hear that you are having good weather & a nice time.
Mummy will send you some sweets & she asks is there anything else you would like.
We had a very nice Friday night to Monday morning at West Kirby. The weather was excellent & we felt as though it was quite a holiday. With much love from Mummy & I. Daddy.
[underlined] MISS [/underlined] ROSEMARY CHADWICK
THE WELLS HOUSE
MALVERN WELLS
WORCESTERSHIRE.
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Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady on a white horse!
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
She shall have music wherever she goes.
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